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Receiving light from the sun, leaves with autumn yellow color shined like gold. In Senjoujiki, Nagano, Japan.
朝日を受けてダケカンバの黄葉が黄金色に輝きました。千畳敷にて
"Roving Reporter Rich Border here, STOP TYPING, I'M BROADCASTING! This reporter has just discovered that Cormornant Construction has filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy and will cease construction immediately on what would have been a third bridge over the Tacoma Narrows, to my horror I witnessed many of the employees dive off of the unfinished structure into the cold deep waters below upon receiving the news.
Flybynight construction has stated that it will pick up where their failed competitor left off but only if the state comes up with a large deposit first, nothing from Olympia on that. In the meantime, WISDOT has stated that without the competition of the third bridge they will be raising the toll on the Gig Harbor side and adding a new one for those attempting to leave Tacoma. We now return you to Heidi, already in progress..."
Pose by Roquai- Sun 1
Stand by Air- Lost heart
Background by the Weekend Ruiner- Red Bath
Horns by Naminoke- Candle horn
Eyepatch by Naminoke- Rose eyepatch
Wings by Clavv- Hermes wings
Villoslada de Cameros, La Rioja, España.
Villoslada de Cameros es un municipio y localidad española de la comunidad autónoma de La Rioja. El término municipal, ubicado en la comarca de Cameros, tiene una población de 348 habitantes (INE 2023).
Está integrado en la comarca de Cameros, concretamente en la subcomarca de Camero Nuevo, situándose a 50 km de Logroño por la carretera N-111, que atraviesa el término municipal en el kilómetro 286.
El extenso término municipal ocupa buena parte de la cara norte de la Sierra Cebollera, que incluye el parque natural del mismo nombre. El río Iregua, que nace en el territorio, forma un profundo valle en su descenso de sur a norte, recibiendo el aporte de los numerosos arroyos de la zona y del río Mayor. Por el oeste, las sierras de Frihuela y Castejón, integradas en el Sistema Ibérico, hacen de límite, junto con la Sierra Cebollera al sur, con la provincia de Soria. En Villoslada hay un centro de interpretación del parque natural de la Sierra de Cebollera.
El techo del municipio es una enorme planicie llamada La Mesa (2168 m) que comparte con Lumbreras de Cameros. El segundo punto más elevado, que da nombre a la sierra, es el pico Cebollera (2141 m), compartido con los municipios de El Royo y Sotillo del Rincón. El núcleo urbano se alza a 1072 m sobre el nivel del mar.
Villoslada de Cameros is a municipality and town in the autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. The municipality, located in the region of Cameros, has a population of 348 inhabitants (INE 2023).
It is part of the region of Cameros, specifically in the sub-region of Camero Nuevo, located 50 km from Logroño on the N-111 road, which crosses the municipal area at kilometre 286.
The extensive municipal area occupies a good part of the northern face of the Sierra Cebollera, which includes the natural park of the same name. The Iregua River, which rises in the territory, forms a deep valley in its descent from south to north, receiving the contribution of the numerous streams in the area and the Mayor River. To the west, the Frihuela and Castejón mountain ranges, integrated into the Iberian System, form a limit, together with the Sierra Cebollera to the south, with the province of Soria. In Villoslada there is an interpretation centre for the Sierra de Cebollera natural park.
The highest point of the municipality is a huge plain called La Mesa (2168 m) which it shares with Lumbreras de Cameros. The second highest point, which gives its name to the mountain range, is the Cebollera peak (2141 m), shared with the municipalities of El Royo and Sotillo del Rincón. The town centre is 1072 m above sea level.mar.
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hot summer☀
I usually get tired.😵😵😵
My body and mind will be healed at the time of receiving beauty treatment and body care while blowing in a comfortable wind.
👩 ”Let's go to the spa”
DaD "Mandarin Spa Massage table" : ~uber~
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Morgenrot, Mt. Goryu
The Hakuba mountains, Ushiro-Tateyama mountain range, Japan North Alps, from the Happo-One, approximately 2,100m above sea level
We're receiving some welcome rainfall in the Cowichan Valley. This will help the front line fire fighters in our province's forests. Hoping for more rain elsewhere in BC as well.
La Fageda d’en Jordà, La Garrotxa, Girona, España.
La Fageda d'en Jordà es un bosque de hayas excepcional porque crece en un terreno llano y se asienta sobre una colada de lava procedente del volcán del Croscat, la cual ofrece un relieve accidentado, con abundantes prominencias muy características, que pueden alcanzar más de 20 m de altura y que reciben el nombre local de tossols. Forma parte del Parque Natural de la Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa. Se encuentra en la comarca de la Garrotxa, cerca del cuello de Can Batlle y San Miguel de Sacot (iglesia románica del siglo XI) y del plan de Sacot y, por el collado de Bassols, se sitúa en el flanco suroeste del volcán de Santa Margarita. El hayedo está rodeada de buena parte de los veintiún un volcanes que hay en la comarca de la Garrotxa.
La Fageda d'en Jordà is an exceptional beech forest because it grows on flat ground and sits on a lava flow from the Croscat volcano, which offers a rugged relief, with abundant very characteristic prominences, which can reach more than 20 m high and receiving the local name of tossols. It is part of the Natural Park of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone. It is located in the region of La Garrotxa, near the neck of Can Batlle and San Miguel de Sacot (Romanesque church of the eleventh century) and the plan of Sacot and, by the hill of Bassols, is located on the southwest flank of the Santa volcano Daisy flower. The beech is surrounded by a good part of the twenty one volcanoes that are in the region of La Garrotxa.
This is my neighbor, CJ. Impressive, isn't he? He weighs almost twice what I do, so as you can see, I have to be careful when we play. He's a gentle giant, but doesn't know his own strength sometimes. We found him and his dad up on the Trail and spent a few minutes dogging around before we said goodbye and headed off into the snow.
Lots of it last night, and it will be snowing off and on for most of the day, with some areas of Ontario receiving up to about 30cm.
The thirty-year daily average for Ottawa is 175, but we've had about 265 already this year, and that's without counting today.
In 2008 322 fell into this city, but Dad remembers 1971 when Ottawa was buried in 357cm. That's 140 inches of snow!
Well, that's the weather report. Happy trails!
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Prescott-Russell Trail, Ottawa, Ontario
561 Clancy 10yrs 16wks
Clancy's Yearbook 11: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72177720303800967
Receiving flowers as a gift is a double blessing. The beauty fills one's house for days and offer up vast opportunities for photo sessions. While admiring my orange Daylily flowers, I noticed bright pollen had fallen to the surface of a leaf. "Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe."
Gautama Buddha
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Den Haag, Kunstmuseum, Staircase, Wall Drawing no. 373 (Soll Lewitt) (uncut)
A part of Soll LeWit's Wall Drawing number 373: Lines in Four Directions (equal spacing on an unequal wall) covers the iconic grand staircase of The Kunstmuseum Den Haag (Formerly the Gemeente museum (Municipal Art museum, (1935 H.P. Berlage).
Shown here is not the entire Le Witt graphic. The museum states the following about him and the giant Wall drawing:
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is one of the founders of conceptual art and American Minimal Art. Minimal art aims to establish a relationship with the immediate environment using the simplest possible means. In doing so, the artist prefers to use simple, possibly found materials. LeWitt's wall drawings and sculptures are world-famous, as is his radical view that an idea for a work of art is more important than its execution. For example, he designs his wall drawings himself but has them executed by a team of assistants. In the 1960s, this conceptual thinking was a direct break with the past and an attack on the age-old principle of the artist as an individual genius.
In 1983, the museum acquired Wall drawing no. 373 by LeWitt. The drawing consists of parallel black and grey stripes. The diagonal and vertical lines run in four different directions and emphasize the height of the staircase in the Berlage building. In the spirit of conceptual art, LeWitt draws a diagram with instructions and leaves the execution to his assistants. Not the artist but his team travels to the destination to create the wall drawing: comparable to an architect who never actually executes a building himself. LeWitt created the design after receiving the technical specifications of the wall where his artwork was to be placed, along with photos and floor plans. He relies entirely on his team for the execution.
The artist also makes a certificate for the buyer of the work in which he records the idea for the drawing. This makes it possible to re-execute the drawing later. If the wall drawing itself disappears, for example, through overpainting, the artwork still exists as an idea on paper. This wall drawing was restored in 2000 after it had been painted over during the renovation of the building. In gratitude for the restoration, the artist donated a new series of wall drawings to the museum.
Sol LeWitt and the Kunstmuseum have a long history together. In 1968, the museum organized the first Minimal Art exhibition in Europe. Two years later, LeWitt's first solo museum exhibition in Europe followed. Since then, various works by the artist have been added to the museum collection. Examples include the five geometric shapes on the façade of KM21 and the murals in the hall of the Kunstmuseum.
Sol Le Witt's Wall Drawing No 1084 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in its dynamic social context, is here.
This is number 308 of the Museum album and 1583 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism.
Tonglen, the Tibetan practice of “sending and receiving,” is one of the most powerful—and radical—ways of cultivating compassion.
When practicing tonglen, we consciously choose to take in the suffering of others. The practitioner breathes in pain and suffering, and sends out compassion and goodness on the exhale.
“It’s a simple and natural exchange: you see suffering, you take it in with the inbreath, you send out relief with the outbreath ....”
Tonglen on the Spot By Pema Chödrön
London Grammar ~ Hey Now (JOBE edit) ~
We have been receiving requests for another trip to The Pantanal , Brazil so we have booked a trip for the 14th of September thru the 26th of September. It is an awesome trip and Natures Tapestry Photo Adventure Tours will be going back for the 6th time. It is exciting when you get your first glimpse of the gorgeous, beautiful jaguar. We have an outstanding Brazilian guide who found eleven jaguars for us on our last trip. Brazil is breathtakingly beautiful and offers the photographer a multitude of photographic opportunities both in the South and North ! If you would like further details please contact us as soon as possible as September is quickly approaching !!
Wishing you a great rest of your day and a very blessed one too !
God of the day and of the night, in me there is darkness, but with You there is light. I am alone, but You will not leave me. I am weak, but You will come to my help. I am restless, but You are my peace. I am in haste, but You are the God of infinite patience. I am confused and lost, but You are eternal wisdom and You direct my path; now and forever. Amen
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
UP 815 lifts what would be one of the final empty boxcars from the Chicago Tribune printing plant adjacent to the former Grand Avenue yard in downtown Chicago. The Tribune closed its doors a few weeks after this was taken in favor of printing outside of the city, together with the Daily Herald and Sun-Times under the umbrella of Paddock Publications in Schaumburg, IL. At the same time, Blommer Chocolate also permanently closed its plant here in downtown Chicago, receiving its last tank car shortly after this was taken to send out the plant's remaining cocoa butter to the company's other plant in East Greenville, Pa. Thus, in a matter of weeks, all rail service into the heart of Chicago came to an end as the last two remaining customers shuttered their plants almost simultaneously.
Blommer and the Tribune had been the last customers on the former C&NW line to Grand Avenue yard, now only a run around track, for the last 23 years. Up until 2001, the Navy Pier line emerged here, continuing further east into downtown in the streets and underneath high-rises to serve the Sun-Times, and up until the very early 1980s, to serve Navy Pier and the Tribune Tower - which relocated into the plant pictured at that time. In the decades prior, the line served many more industries in downtown, including notably the Curtiss Candy Company, famous for their Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars, which moved out of the city in 1970.
In this scene, the C&NW caboose was brought along as a shoving platform to reach Alpha Baking and to spot the hopper loaded with flour on the left later in the afternoon. Located northwest of downtown, Alpha is now the last customer traditionally handled by this job. In the background to the right, part of the former Montgomery Ward building can be seen across the river, on whose doorstep the Milwaukee Road once ran down the street on the Kingsbury branch to reach a variety of industrial customers, Wallace Press being the last of which to see service this far South of that branch up until 1990. Goose Island is immediately behind (north of) the Tribune plant, where the Milwaukee Road and later Chicago Terminal served customers like AKZO Salt and Big Bay Lumber as late as 2015. The UP used to interchange cars to the Chicago Terminal from North Avenue yard just up the line, where Morton Salt also still received cars until the end of 2015.
Now everything has come to a close - the Chicago Tribune plant here has since been almost entirely demolished, and the iconic 1939-built Blommer Chocolate factory building is sitting idle and awaiting an uncertain fate. All the rails here haven't seen movement in months with all customers now gone, and will likely be removed as this area gets turned into an entertainment spot - the site of the Chicago Tribune is getting turned into a casino...
Chicago, IL
In early February, 2015, northwest Indiana was on the receiving end of Mother Nature's wrath. Lake effect snow fell off and on for several days. Chicago received a healthy dumping as well, creating havoc on the rails.
In addition to the snow, Mother Nature also turned down the temperatures and decided to whip up the winds. It was brutal!
Any railroader with some whiskers knows what to expect when faced these conditions. Switches get snowed in, brakes ice and freeze up, and motive power fails.
On this particular run out of Chicago, we unfortunately hit the trifecta. Each switch in the yard had to be swept almost every time before throwing due to the winds. Once we had the train solid, the air test took quite some time to complete as one car refused to release.
Finally, a few hours behind the carded departure time, we hit the mains and headed east. Just after crossing the Calumet River Bridge, the lead unit of our three unit set died. I limped the train down to Whiting and notified with the dispatcher.
After several attempts to restart this Dash 9 failed, I made a call to the mechanical desk on my phone. It was soon discovered that unit had developed a serious issue and needed to be shopped.
Not long after this determination, the Chief Dispatcher radioed and asked if we could get the train to Elkhart where a new leader would be added to the consist. This idea involved the prospect of traveling close to 90 miles, under blizzard conditions, with no heat.
Needless to say, this conversation was a short one as all involved agreed it was the safest course to get a new leader right where we stood. This was not possible, for we were not the only train with power problems.
While the Dearborn office brainstormed options, I went back to the second unit and gave it a once over to see if it was fit to lead. After determining the engine was fully equipped, and the heater worked, I pitched the idea to the dispatcher.
It did not take long to get a thumbs up from Dearborn. We set the failed unit out at Colehour, rearmed the marker, and headed east.
Now, I have to admit that my suggestion was two sided. It really was the best in terms of getting this late priority train moving again, a huge benefit for the railroad.
For me, it meant that a rare (on NS) Cyclops SD60M would now be the leader. Through all of years running trains, I never had one of these unique three windowed units be lead out.
My run on her was just under 90 miles, due to adding a cab signal equipped engine at Elkhart. I enjoyed my time behind the throttle, especially the distinctive view.
At Holmesville, we came to a halt for a maintainer to inspect power switches in Laporte. After taking a few photos, I took several minutes to enjoy the sights and sounds of the forest and falling snow. It was so calming and peaceful.
Speaking of peace, my hope for 2025 is a decrease in the level of chaos across the globe, and here in the states. It concerns me to see the direction the world is heading.
Merry Christmas my friends!
Revisit of an image taken 50 years that's benefitted from a tweak in the virtual darkroom.
Class 86 electric 86012 is captured making friends with the platform trolleys at Liverpool Lime St station, while it waits on departure time with a service to London.
The TOPS numbering system was being introduced at the time and the BR fleet was in the process of receiving a number based upon the 2-digit class, followed by a 3-digit individual unit number. My notes state that the pre-TOPS number of this one was E3122.
Interestingly enough my notes also state that this was a Pullman working, although I haven't yet been able to find other evidence that this was the case. Maybe what I read as a 1A38 headcode provides a clue? Judging by the shadows, the shot was taken mid-morning.
I was traveling on a week-long London Midland Region Rover at the time, but lack of funds meant film usage was limited to a couple of transparency reels for the whole week. A shame in retrospect given the richness of the railway scene back then.
Update: Further research shows that, at the time, the 'Liverpool Pullman' had a scheduled departure from London Euston at 7.45am, with a 10.24am arrival in Lime St. The Pullman coaches sound plausible then, with 86012 attached after arrival to possibly work the empty coaching stock to Allerton for storage until the evening 6.00pm Pullman departure back to London. It seems the train never really caught the imagination of the travelling public however and the service was stopped later in the 1970s to be replaced by one with the usual Mk2 AC coaching stock.
Kodak Ektachrome64
20th August 1974
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. Mary Hewitt
*happy delicate bokeh wednesday*
receiving the stillness
of a starry evening
unfurled by the galaxy
(alternate title: the stars, the moon & a donut.)
Posting by cameraphone from Los Altos, CA
after a moonlit ride with the top down.
Old receiving tomb at Boston's Mount Hope Cemetery (though I suspect it is not used much anymore, at least for that purpose). Took this a few years ago, but just recently reprocessing and posting this color version.
MAN004, MAN002 and MAN008 lead empty wheat train 9571 from Nowra to Gunnedah through Maldon. SSR took over this operation at the beginning of November, and Manildra Group are in the process of receiving a new fleet of locomotives and wagons. The fleet will consist of 17 new EMD GT46ACe-II to hauld a fleet of approximately 450 wagons of different shapes and sizes.
2024-12-08 SSR MAN004-MAN002-MAN008 Maldon 9571